The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-25
THE CULPRIT ARRESTED.
THE ASSAILANT or JENNIE BOW.
NAN,
The Louisville Servant Girl, Caught
by the Police, Confesses dis
Brutal Crime.
HIS CAPTURE KEPT QUIET BY
THE OFFICES
Until His Arrival In Frankfort 10
Avert His Being Lynched by
an Infuriated Mob.

LOUISVILLE, KY, April "a The
brutal assailsnt of Jennie Bowman,
the white domestic who was go horri-
bly, and fatally beaten up by O burglar
in broad day light last Thursday, has
been captured. The arrest was made
last night, and the guilt & the man
surely established by his own comics.
sion. The police authorities withheld
the news from the papers until 10
o'clock this morning, when they had
taken the miscresnt, who ia a burly,
black negro, named Albert Turner, to
Frankfort, fearing that he would be
lyuched here. Had the details OF the
capture become public last night, the
negro would almost certainly have
been hung by q mob before morning,
30 incensed are the people o. the out
rage. 1t will be remembered that the
man entered the house, located In the
fashionable resident portion of the
city, between the hours Of IL and IL
o'clock in the morning, having first
observed that all Of the inma es had
left. While he was ransacking the
place the girl returped and pluckily
fought him, giving him several severe
gashes in the face with q tumbler.
The brute knocked her down, crush
ing in her skull with brass poker and
otherwise diefguring her, and then
made his escape. No clew was OBJ
tanned until yesterday when it was
found that negro had been lying for
several days serreted in a stable in
the central portion Of the city. He
was arrested, but denied his guilt not
withstanding his face was baudaged,
and had evidently been cut with come
rough, legged instrument. While
chief OF police Whallen was question
ing him, he was called out by the ar
rival OF prisoner wounded in cut
ting sc ape. After examining the
wounds to discover their extent, he
returned to his office before he had
washed his hands, and as he entered
the police officer who Rad searched
Turner's room came in, They had
found secreted there pair Of silk
stockings and big elk handkerchief,
the on'y articles positively missed by
Mrs. A. Y. Johnson, at whose house
Jennie Bowman WAS assaulted. Col.
Whallen came in with his bloody
hands, just as the officers unTolled the
handkerchief and stockings, the mute
proof OF the terrible crime The sight
OF these was too much for Turner.
Throwing up his hands, he cried out
III done 1t, done IT, but i couldn't
help it," He broke down completely,
and soon told the awful story. He
said he had gone to the houee for the
purpose OF robbery, and had a sacked
several rooms when MIS- Bowen came
in. The brave girl seized him at once,
he eaid, and be could not get away
from her till he struck her on the
head. He knocked her down, but she
sprang up again, and struck him with
the glass. He caught up the poker
and struck her again aud again, but
the glass Was shivered on his head and
hands before she was overpowered.
He then said when she fell for the
last time he ran out OF the back way
and escaped, having already placed
the bureau key, handkerchief and
stockings in his pocket. The key he
threw away a short distance from the
house, and this was found yesterday
afternoon by some boys, who had car
ried il to the police.
The girl still fingers al the point Of
death with slight hopes Of her re-
coveIy.